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At what level could you kill Dragons alone?
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pretty much anytime after the first one when I ran into them
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pretty much anytime after the first one when I ran into them
really? I get 3-4 shot.
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Albdestroyer posted:
Gilligan.USCG posted:
pretty much anytime after the first one when I ran into them
really? I get 3-4 shot.
is this when i "l2play n00b"? 
its really hard as melee. as an archer its super easy, just kite em around
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after the first with my archer, but i never kill them alone because my brotherhood horse always tanks them
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Gilligan.USCG posted:
Albdestroyer posted:
Gilligan.USCG posted:
pretty much anytime after the first one when I ran into them
really? I get 3-4 shot.
is this when i "l2play n00b"?
its really hard as melee. as an archer its super easy, just kite em around
maybe that's why I struggle.
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lvl 9 as an archer 14ish as a melee, even set to master they're way to easy to kill imo
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If you are getting 3-4 shot, you need to get more armor for when it lands, and elemental resistance can help reduce breath damage (but you can just chug health potions instead, also run underneath it when it flies at you and you won't get hit too much).
You don't really need archery, once the dragon gets to low health it stays on the ground. Later on you get a dragon shout that forces dragons to land. Regardless, shooting arrows gives you something to do while you wait. You want to get your melee damage as high as possible if you don't get good archery.
Get your two-handed damage up, max skill, obtain best perks, max smithing. Enchanting isn't needed, but enchanting + smith will kill the dragons really fast.
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anyone got some tips for me then? I can't seem to kill them, i've gotten one and i;m about lvl 15. I'm two handed, with a bit in archer.
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i only melee, and i have had no problems with any of em.
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I'm not really sure how it translates because I started by cranking the difficulty to max, but I started by maxing smithing to get wicked daedric armor. after that you can tank a dragon OK
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Since I just started playing Skyrim, I put the skill level onto Apprentice (the easiest). I'm playing a cat, with emphasis on thievery-type stuff (sneak, pickpocket, daggers for weps, etc) and using a bow as much as possible. What I have a very hard time accomplishing is shooting the damn dragons as they are flying around overhead. When they hover, wings spread, yeah, that's a couple easy shots but I waste more fricking arrows as they are flying around...  . But, between myself and Lydia (and now Janessa) dragons are not a problem as long as I pop a health potion and blow a couple shouts at them.
Only thing is, it seems every time I leave a big town and head for somewhere to do a quest, I run into a dragon...are there supposed to be more and more of these dragons popping up everywhere as time goes on? Should I have tried to race my way through without any sleep time, or sideline quests to avoid seeing so many dragons? Edit: but, to answer, I've been killing them every time I run around since I saw my first one at level 4 just outside Whiterun. Never solo though, my "companion" is always with me, so not sure if that counts??
Edit - forgot to answer the question!!
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Terrain is your friend -- just stand and be blasted doesnt work until later in the game.
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I'm fairly high level, in the 30's and I can't just melee a dragon. Mainly because all my damage is based on sneak attacks and daggers 
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OG_Loki posted:
I'm fairly high level, in the 30's and I can't just melee a dragon. Mainly because all my damage is based on sneak attacks and daggers
It is kind of funny to sneak up on a sleeping dragon and .....
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i don't think they even have a sleeping animation? O_o
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i don't think they even have a sleeping animation? O_o
Oh they certainly do sleep and can be stealthed and stabbed.
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I go all Sith Lord on them and cook them with Double Lightning spell. They tend to drop easily enough.
I can kill them without dying 
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I did that once to a dragon sleeping on top of some tower. Can't recall where it was though.
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A thing to be aware of is the scaling.
If you focus on non-combat skills or spread yourself too thin, the difficulty scales up faster than your combat abilities. I made the mistake of leveling smithing, enchanting, alchemy and lockpicking all in a short period of time. I gained like 10 levels off of it and not a lick of it was in combat skills. As such, dragons and other monsters scaled up 10 levels of difficulty, but I was still behind those levels in combat skills.
I've since focused back on combat skills and the 100 smithing and enchanting lets me make some fearsome gear and all is right again.
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I got my guy up to 59 before I rerolled. I was one hand and bow. With a Legendary bow and Daedric arrows I could take out 2 dragons at once and never drink anything. I might use a shout to bring them down, or a shout to keep them down, but 2 dragons was cake. I've had monsters that were harder to kill. It wasn't always that way though. Sounds like you need a companion that can't be killed. Aela would be that.
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Where the heck do you buy daedric arrows?
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turn the difficulty level down and you wont have a problem
skyrim sucks,,,,i should sell the game
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Buy daedric arrows at the fletcher in Solitude. Then, give just one to your companion and take away their iron/steel arrows. Suddenly you'll notice daedric arrows showing up in corpses that they shoot. Or, better yet, go to the target shooters in Solitude and reverse pick pocket a daedric arrow in their inventory, and steal their steel arrows (either with the perk of stealing equipped items, or wait until they are asleep in barracks and pinch them. When you get it set, they'll be shooting daedric arrows at the target and you can collect them until you get bored.
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-Mythical- posted:
A thing to be aware of is the scaling.
If you focus on non-combat skills or spread yourself too thin, the difficulty scales up faster than your combat abilities. I made the mistake of leveling smithing, enchanting, alchemy and lockpicking all in a short period of time. I gained like 10 levels off of it and not a lick of it was in combat skills. As such, dragons and other monsters scaled up 10 levels of difficulty, but I was still behind those levels in combat skills.
I've since focused back on combat skills and the 100 smithing and enchanting lets me make some fearsome gear and all is right again.
If you max smithing, enchanting, and alchemy you are damn near invincible even with gimped combat skills and how can you ever die when you can make a potion with wheat and blue mountain flowers that restores 200 health?
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I have never died to a dragon and I went to 30 mainly as sword and board. Now I'm leveling archery and it's even easier.
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Do +enchanting items exist?
I have Fortify Smithing and Fortify Alchemy, which I've disenchanted and subsequently enchanted onto other gear.
But I've never once encountered +enchanting gear. I suppose it could be exploited if they didn't put limits on it (craft +enchant gear, equip, use to craft better +enchant gear, repeat for massive enchant bonus).
Also, on a related question, I've read several places that you can get enough Fortify Destruction enchants that your destruction spells cost nearly nothing to cast. I've enchanted 3 or 4 pieces of armor/jewelry with Fortify Destruction and it gets like a 72% reduction I believe (18% * 4 if I recall...not at home to check). If I can get better than that, how do I do it?
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no gear, only potions for enchanting
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So, I took some of the advice, and I've killed 4 since I started this thread. Pretty easy once you get them on the ground and keep them there.
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Do +enchanting items exist?
I have Fortify Smithing and Fortify Alchemy, which I've disenchanted and subsequently enchanted onto other gear.
But I've never once encountered +enchanting gear. I suppose it could be exploited if they didn't put limits on it (craft +enchant gear, equip, use to craft better +enchant gear, repeat for massive enchant bonus).
Also, on a related question, I've read several places that you can get enough Fortify Destruction enchants that your destruction spells cost nearly nothing to cast. I've enchanted 3 or 4 pieces of armor/jewelry with Fortify Destruction and it gets like a 72% reduction I believe (18% * 4 if I recall...not at home to check). If I can get better than that, how do I do it?
No + enchant gear only potions. And no +alchemy potions. Too easy to exploit.
To get 100% reduction on your Destruction and one other magic skill you need to max out alchemy and enchanting including neccesary perks. Make 4 items for fortify alchemy. Wear em. Make 4 fortify enchantment potions. Make 4 new items for fortify alchemy. Wear those. Make 4 more fortify enchantment potions. The max you can make without using the Fortify Restoration exploit is a +29% alchemy item. Four of those will get you a +32% fortify enchantment potion. Make four of those, and make yourself 3 or 4 fortify destruction/fortify whatever items. That will put you close to (3 items) or over 100% and cast for free.
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